Comments on: Is President Obama Good for Women?

By: Helen McCombs

Helen McCombs — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:19:05 +0000

No Obama didn’t do much for women and I am not surprised he ran the most sexist campaign in my lifetime so I didn’t expect him to really do anything. I didn’t trust Valarie Jarret from the beginning. I don’t think Obama is serious about women he seems like he doesn’t have much respect for women and girls.

By: Lana

Lana — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:06:39 +0000

I agree wholeheartedly with Janis. Although, I wasn’t for him to begin with. He allows Michelle to be the trophy wife with her tone arms and her fashion sense. Who cares about those things? She could do a lot more to further womens’ causes.

Now for another couple of comments.

Has anyone seen this story? I was beyond disgusted by the event and lack of reports on this story. It’s about a gang rape on a woman and her son in FL.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288512,00.html

I also wanted to mention the ACORN scandal. If you have not yet heard about this, a young man and woman posed as a pimp and prostitute to obtain funding for housing as part of an investigative report. They proposed to the Acorn workers that their business would be run out of the home and would include underage (13 yr old) Salvadorean girls. They were given all kinds of advice in order to be able to operate the business in the home funded by our tax dollars. The investigation is just beginning and therefore this is just the tip of the iceberg. The Senate voted on eliminating funding for Acorn as a result. The following Senators voted against the elimination of funds. So, I am assuming that they are okay with the idea of advocating child prostitution/prostitution. They are: KRISTEN GILLIBRAND,Dick Durbin, Roland Burris, Patrick Leahy,Sheldon Whitehouse,Bernard Sanders and Robert Casey.
Frankly it’s shocking to see her on the list. Anyone with any additional insight on these topics?

By: Janis

Janis — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:53:01 +0000

Karen, if she ever needs your help in the future, tell her that it’s sexist of her to expect you to help her just because she’s a woman.

Kendall, my personal role models at this point are Mike and the Bots from Mystery Science Theater 3000. We’re all locked in the theater powerless, watching the tragic comedy of human existence, and the only weapon we have to use to console ourselves with is our own wit. Pass the popcorn. I’m through with pitching in anymore. People who help me or my mom directly and unambiguously have a claim on my time and effort. Absolutely no one else does.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:01:05 +0000

Kendall, Janis, I wish you could convince my sister of how sexist Obama is. I find it frustrating that she is an Obama-worshipper who accuses me of being the sexist one. She calls her own hypocrisy “complex thinking.” I am so disgusted with her intolerance and willful ignorance.

By: KendallJ

KendallJ — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:25:26 +0000

Janis,

I appreciate your anger and frustration. I too am frustrated about how so many women were taken in by Obama’s bull shit. His misogynistic tactics on the campaign trail should have been a red flag as to how he would approach women’s rights and concerns. But now what do we do? We are stuck with him and I’m not some one to sit down and STFU.

By: HeroesGetMade

HeroesGetMade — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:17:33 +0000

There’s not much doubt Obama’s a disaster for women – I trust no one here is shocked? The Council on Women and Girls would be a great idea if it had actual leadership and an agenda, besides being a symbolic gesture to get the women to shut up. Now is not the time to shut up, though, and the council could be made useful if it was given some direction and some good goals. I think getting the US to sign onto CEDAW should be the first order of business for the council, and thereafter, they should apply the principles of CEDAW to every nook and cranny of our own government to ensure women are getting represented in every decision that’s made, you know, as if women were most people …. oh, wait! Getting CEDAW ratified by our very own country would dovetail quite nicely with the global feminist agenda that Madame Secretary of State has been relentlessly pursuing everywhere she goes. It would also give the US some much-needed credibility when Madame Secretary tries to convince the world that the US actually gives a rip about women other than to use them as an excuse to haul out the war toys.

By: Alison

Alison — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:52:31 +0000

Let’s not forget that NOW has new leadership now with Terry O”Neill as president. Very different from Kim Gandy, there may be good things to come with O’Neill.

By: KendallJ

KendallJ — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:42:14 +0000

Obama sucks! He is just another male pol who trade women’s rights in back room deals like the rest of them. He is no better than Karsi in Afghanistan, who made rape legal in order to garner support from misogynistic Mullahs! Women are there to trade like horses to these assholes. Obama is no different. For those of you who thought he was, you apparently weren’t paying close attention.

By: MaryL

MaryL — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:19:52 +0000

Valerie Jarrett is working on bringing the Olympics to Chicago. Bruce is right—no announcements from the “Council” since its creation…

By: Adrienne in CA

Adrienne in CA — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:17:36 +0000

Janis, I’m with you 100%.

BTW, to mslas, I only wish Valarie Jarret was like NOW is now. Unlike the other national “pro-women” organizations, NOW issued a strong statement the day after the President’s vaunted health care speech, calling him out for blatently compromising women’s reproductive health needs to appeal to the fundamentalist fringe.

http://www.now.org/press/09-09/09-10.html

Meanwhile, sounds like the White House Council for Women and Girls, like most of Obama’s deeds (versus words) in support of half America’s people, is M.I.A.

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